Language for the ages

[a.carlini at ntlworld.com]

Jules Richardson wrote:

> That was such a scary thought I had to share it, although I suppose it
> does point out that comments are only useful if you speak the language
> they're written in, and there's no real substitute for decent code
> which goes a long way toward explaining itself... :-)

I presume that you realise that "decent code which goes 
a long way toward explaining itself" is subject to the
same restriction, i.e. you need to understand the human
language in which the implementor chose to write the
variable and function names. Or do you believe that
running decent code through a "shrouding" program
will have no effect on your ability to understand it?

Antonio

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Antonio carlini
arcarlini at iee.org